Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-19
CITY AND COUNTY
Joined in q Grand Effort to Establish
Factories and Build Up
Home Markets.
The Tarrant County Cooperative Manu-
featuring and Agricultural Bureau an
Established observation-disclosures.

large NEE ting OF the S0lld ana SUD-
stantial citizens of Tarrant county and
Fort Worth met st the courthouse to hear
the report of the committee appointed at
a former meeting. Judge c. c. Cum
mings called the meeting to order and
fully explained its object for the benefit
of those who did not hear the opening
speeches.
On motion Mr.. L. B. Imboden was
elected secretary.
COMMITTEE REPORT.
The secretary then read the following
report submitted by the committee:
To Judge G. O. Cummings, Temporary Chair
man of Tarrant County Cooperative Manu-
featuring and Agricultural Bureau:
DEAR SIR: After much thought and
mature elaboration, your committee
beg leave to make the following preamble
and report:
PREAMBLE.
Whereas, Tarrant county contains SIC,
900 acres OF land, with unsurpassed
fertility for the various crops, growing
corn, wheat, oats, cotton, hemp and flax,
potatoes of all kinds il abundance, and in
many places the varied fruit crops do ex-
ceedingly we'll; we can have vegetables
the year round; stock of all classes do
well; our best land will readily yield 750
pounds of lint cotton per acre by planting
improved seed, giving seed capacity equal
to 1900 pounds; we have known as many
as 800 bushels of sweet potatoes grown
on one acre; from fifty to seveuty-ive
bushels of Irish potatoes is common. We
often grow forty bushels of wheat on one
acre, eighty bushels of oats, seventy of
barley, sixty of corn. The yield of the
castor bean is immense. Sugar-beet and
sorghum grow well, and IN the cross
tlmbers the ribbon cane can be made q
success. A wheat crop and stock pea
crop can be made the same year on the
same land. We can make an Irish potato
crop and cotton crop on the same land
the same year. We can even grow corn
crop with Irish potatoes. Cabbage and
orions can be grown on the same land the
same year.
Railroad facilities and water privileges
in Fort Worth are unsurpassed by any
city in the state. These thoughts lead
your committee to make the following re-
port:
That foundries, mills and factories of
ali descriptions can be operated here very
Chesply, which will give employment ana
prosperity to thousands of persons who
are at present idle and in want Of profta-
bic employment. We must have diver
sity of labor to have continued prosperity.
We must learn economy as well as indus
try, by saving transportation and furnish
ing g home market for our small crops.
To have prosperity we must have healthy
and profitable employment. We must
6ro rnnrN1o from yripn hUya yaYOnln
offering inoucement in the way of remun-
erative employment. 1t has been
properly said that "idleness Is the
coded your committee recommend
that cooperative bureau be organized
for the purpose of aiding manufactures
and encouraging agricultural industries;
that the name of this cooperative associ-
alton be known as theTarrant County Co.
operative Manufacturing and Agricultu
raj Bureau; that the object of said bureau
shall be to aid in the various manufactur-
ing industries and to encourage the varid
agricultural interests. We recommend
that committee of one from each voting
precinct in the county, with two
from each ward in the city
be appointed as an executive board, and
that this committee or board so created,
be authorized to procure stock books, to
select and appoint from their members
q temporary president, vice-p president,
secretary, and such other officers as
they may see fit, for the purpose of Or
ganizing this bureau; that the stock be
divided into shares of 500 each; that it
be paid in monthly installments of So
each month, until the whole share or
stock is paid, at which time certificates
of said stock may be issued to the
purchasers. We further recommend said
committee have blank notes printed
like the following, with blank
date and stub:
FORT WORTH, Ten, May -. 1887.
For one share of the Tarrant county
cooperative stock of 500 | hereby agree
to pay to President -- of said bureau.
So on the first day of each month until /
have paid the sum of 500, the amount
and value of said stock, and that these
notes when signed go to create the CAPT
tai of said bureau.
We further recommend:
l. That no officer or laborer shall re-
ceive salary exceeding $1,000 per an
mum, one-fourth of wlich shall be paid
insstock.
2. That all laborers be required to take
of their salary in stock.
8. That other things being equal, those
laboring for this institution as wage la
borers, shall have preference in any wage
labor required of any of it's work to be
performed in any of its departments IN
der its control or any work in which this
association has controlling interest.
4. That no one shall hold office unless
he own stock in this association.
8. That no stakeholder shall have or
exercise more than five votes, to be exer-
Cised and enjoyed by him as follows
One vote for the first share he owns and
one for each ten shares additional TO
said first share, not to exceed in all the
sum Of five votes.
6. These rules shall be Incorporated in
the constitution of this association.
Z. The constitution shall only be
altered or amended by two
third vote of Gil the stockholders, whether
present or not; that is, it requires two
thirds of all the stockholders to change
the constitution, and the two thirds do
not have all to be present when the vote |
Is taken.
s. Proxies may be sent up by those not |
present, but the same shall be in writing, |
and no one person shall exercise the right |
% cast more than five votes by proxy, and